Charles L. Pearson, native of London, Eng., was born in 1831, and is a son of Henry Robert Pearson and Anne (Harris) Pearson, both natives of England, where the father held the office of chief clerk of the Treasury Department, when he retired after forty-three years continual service. The mother died in 1833, and in 1838 he wedded Charlotte Cousens, who is still living in England. The father died in 1870. At the age of fifteen our subject entered the royal navy of England, and after ten years' service, at the close of the Crimean war, during which he was actively engaged, he retired with the rank of lieutenant. He then came to Niagara, Canada, where he accepted a position as professor of mathematics in the high school, and served one year. He then went to New York and was engaged in the insurance business a few months, after which he followed teaching in Illinois and Iowa until 1860, when he came to Perry County, Tenn., and continued his former occupation until 1865. Since that time his chief occupations have been merchandising and filling various county offices as deputy until 1882, when he was elected clerk of the county court, and still holds the office. March 8, 1865, he married Georgiana P. Brooks, of Williamson County, Tenn., and thirteen children blessed their union, only six now living. The eldest child, George W. Pearson, is a promising young attorney of Linden, and a graduate of Cumberland University. He received his diploma at the age of nineteen, being probably one of the youngest men ever admitted to the bar in Tennessee. Mr. Pearson and family are church members.